Word of the Week: BUTERBROD - БУТЕРБРОД

This week, one of the Russian "classics". In German, there is nothing more to a Butterbrot than the name suggests - bread and butter. In Russian, however, any kind of sandwich is a бутерброд (buterbrod). Usually, however, they are  rather elaborate open-faced sandwiches (not necessarily as inventive as the lovely animals above, though.) 

Interestingly, in Danish, the lavishly garnished sandwiches are famously called smørrebrød, which, if you translate it literally into German, means nothing more than Butterbrot! 

The picture is from www.sdelaysam-samodelki.ru.